1917 Quotations with Writ.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of Englis ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imper ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by ...
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